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‘Voters here in the North East and across the Red Wall will determine the next general election.’

GB News Economics and Business Editor @LiamHalligan reports on Britishvolt’s administration, which has resulted in hundreds of job losses in the North East.

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  1. @banzai385

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    Cancel HS2 ,invest in British Volt !

  2. @terrortorn

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    Idiot voters will determine the next general election, that is quite correct. Con or Lab, and still pretend they are different.

  3. @ClarkGable1

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    None of these factories would be environmentally friendly as they would be importing the raw materials from Chinese mining companies in the Congo

  4. @djb4069

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    Electric cars and batteries is not the future!!!!!!!!!,

  5. @Wemdave

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    Lets use them jobs to start fracking and make cheap sustainability energy.

  6. @Wemdave

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    lots of money being made by net green shit

  7. @vinniechan

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    While it sounds bad on the outset I do hope something is going to come off this gigga factory even tho it didn't come to be in this iteration
    It's easy to blame government for not providing support but at the end of the day no one knows how a business would pan out tomorrow and you are essentially betting with tax payers money

  8. @shauny2285

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    Reminds me of the Solyndra scandle in the USA during the Obama years.

  9. @WhoTube277

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    The earth isn't dying. STOP IT.

  10. @TheDunelmDelverUK10QP

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    This factory hasn't happened because nobody wants electric cars, the great climate emergency scam is starting to unravel, the private financiers know this because they knew it was a scam before we did. Also I live in the north east surrounded by wind turbines in every direction you look, rarely do you see all the blades turning, take today for example, I drove past a six turbine wind farm and not one of them was in operation, why..?? because there wasn't a breath of wind, millions of pounds of taxpayers money standing idle, putting nothing into the national grid, wonderful eh…

  11. @iguanaman08

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    So they need 10 of these plants by 2030 and have built only one. They are too expensive and will never show a return on investment. That's why only one so far.

  12. @prescientselector3784

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    And how many taxpayer pounds were p****d up against the wall pursuing this fantasy ?

  13. @clivewalker5465

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    Is this the Manufacturer that received £100 Million in Government [ Taxpayers ] Money ? Did the Directors , like those from the Rover Car Company , walk away as Millionaires ? If there was Money to be made , the Entreprenuers would be lining up with their Backers , but , nowadays , just Spivs latching on to the Taxpayer Teats .

  14. @canzuk1975

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    Could they not get European funding oh wait…

  15. @vincentmckenna1755

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    But we will give Chinese money to produce them,is there no coal under the ground there

  16. @henrybull9586

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    Imagine going bust before you've even started to break ground building the factory

  17. @SimonWallwork

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    The real problem here is this whole industry is falsely based. Anthropogenic Global Warming is a load of rubbish, and that's becoming clearer and clearer as time goes by. If BEVs cannot stand on their own merits, what's the point?

  18. @emmanuelrobert208

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    Hooray!!!! Another BREXIT benefit.

  19. @JayJoestarr

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    Here before a foreign company will buy it. Just like everything else.

  20. @stevennorth6484

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    You can guarantee it will be built from foreign investment & all profits will end up overseas & a few years down the line it will be closed & production shipped to Europe or China.

  21. @shadybad9836

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    This head line graber is wrong, they have not lost hundreds of jobs as the factory has not been built yet, so obviously the jobs were not there

  22. @markcorby2830

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    EVs – the next biggest scam!!!

  23. @marcusoutdoors4999

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    £100m is chicken feed when the UK spent £18bn on London’s Cross Rail which will never wash its own face financially.

  24. @markgould9259

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    Another dodgy government project what is going on I will never buy an electric car because of how shizen they are

  25. @peteruk8925

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    Such a pity this has to close, uk 🇬🇧 needs a production facility to produce ev battery's so not relying on overseas, just common sense !! Wish Mr Musk would come over here to make a giga facility , get it done properly as only Elon seems to know 😉 !!!

  26. @alangood8190

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    The British problem once again; lack of long term financial investment which allows foreign competition to steal the markets.
    This venture is in the National interest and presses all the right buttons so why not have super attractive incentives to attract those ready to take a punt in return for possibly lucrative rewards.

  27. @philgreenfield8704

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    Battery vehicles, a dream turning into a nightmare.

  28. @diegolove173

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    The real story is Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Congo, and Niger are now refusing to sell lithium to cars, and battery manufacturers and rightly so they want Tesla and co to build factories in Africa

  29. @ancietman

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    I just checked National Grid live only 23.3% of our energy today is being generated from renewables.

  30. @paulslater9061

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    They've realised electric cars are a non starter people have sussed the con

  31. @grahamcook9289

    January 14, 2024 at 12:43 pm

    This guy talks a lot of sense and clearly knows what he is talking about. Most unusual for GB News.

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